"I think if you make a new set of chip Elves and then stash them in Hazel that also keeps their world paused but I'm not certain, could ask the bar. Alternately hole the planets the doors open to, that should seriously impede them and give them new priorities even if we don't get lucky and get all the Valar -"

"We wouldn't get all the Valar, they're scattered around, some of them on various Endorës."

"No real downside to the attempt, though. Should I make chip Elves -"

Sigh. "Yes, go ahead."

Meanwhile, Lilie's most basic conjurations are getting bewildering results. Conjuring over the Maitimos template reveals Timothy and the one at home in Sanity with his children. The others all appear to be dead. The fairy was summoned by one of Theodore's Elf alts, also now dead. There are so many dead Elves.

That is a little terrifying. Are there any Elves in Milliways who aren't dead -

N- yes, now there's a batch of chip Elves.

" - they're making new ones to pause the Elf worlds -"

And here is a little model of Minor near the chip reader.

"Can you expedite the - letting Cam talk - they didn't want him to talk they went out of their way -"

"The delay is almost entirely a lightspeed problem," says Niari. "There isn't a message conjuration setup on Ganymede."

"I know you won't but you should snap his binding."

"The summoners are under watch, he'd just wind up back in Hell," says Niari.

"They had everyone paused for at least a week. They're trying to do it again. Once we're paused we lose. If you can dismiss him and hear from him ten minutes faster as a result -"

"How would they pause here?" asks Niari. "They don't have anyone from here there -"

"Ex-summoner to get the door, kidnap someone."

"We'd have to get a message to Ganymede about taking down his circles," says Niari. "It's recent enough they won't have been cleared. Same lightspeed problem."

Nod. 

Lilie looks - "They have summoned someone. Milliways itself is not very conjurable but the summoned fairy looks like a former human. And yet we move."

"Have to convince them to get the door and then kidnap someone have they done that -"

"I cannot conjure the door. The inhabitants of the bar environment are thus -" Heap. Heap. Heap. Additional person.

"I think that means the door's open to here. For now."

"Is there anything else we can do?" asks Niari.

"No."

The door closes; someone drags the hostage away to be infested. "- nope, that didn't pause them -"